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Everybody's Picking and Choosing for Hea New Testament Letters
Langton: Why didn't the apostles come to see the implication that slavery is inconsistent with jesus creating a multiethnic family of loved people who are all by god before him? John: The way you articulated it is true to how so many people feel when they read texts about slavery. It just leaps off the page to most modern readers that it doesn't prohibit and that there are some texts, like in a timothy or titus, that actually tell slaves to obey your master. And te the history of how those verses have been used to legitimate all kinds of things, especially in american history, is really horrific.